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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-07-17 01:41:30 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-07-17 07:40:46 -0700
commit0c24604b68fc7810d429d6c3657b6f148270e528 (patch)
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tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2
Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using SYN bit. Section 4.2 of RFC 5961 advises to send a Challenge ACK and drop incoming packet, instead of resetting the session. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent in response to SYN packets. (netstat -s | grep TCPSYNChallenge) Remove obsolete TCPAbortOnSyn, since we no longer abort a TCP session because of a SYN flag. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella <kkiran@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/proc.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/proc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index 3e8e78f12a38..2a5240b2ea61 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoSent", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFOSENT),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKRECV),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPDSACKOfoRecv", LINUX_MIB_TCPDSACKOFORECV),
- SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnSyn", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONSYN),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnData", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONDATA),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnClose", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONCLOSE),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPAbortOnMemory", LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONMEMORY),
@@ -262,6 +261,7 @@ static const struct snmp_mib snmp4_net_list[] = {
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPOFODrop", LINUX_MIB_TCPOFODROP),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPOFOMerge", LINUX_MIB_TCPOFOMERGE),
SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPChallengeACK", LINUX_MIB_TCPCHALLENGEACK),
+ SNMP_MIB_ITEM("TCPSYNChallenge", LINUX_MIB_TCPSYNCHALLENGE),
SNMP_MIB_SENTINEL
};